Love and Other Demons - full audio
Love and Other Demons (Eötvös), 2008 - audio • 1h 53m
Opera in two parts by Peter Eötvös. Libretto by Kornél Hamvai after Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Of Love and Other Demons” by arrangement with Schott Music, Mainz.
Part I
1 Overture (Evocation) 00.00.00
2 Scene 1/A: a silent shiver... an icy river… 00.02.48
3 Scene 1/B: God has blessed us. 00.04.50
4 Scene 1/C: When you were born, I was your babalawo. 00.07.07
5 Scene 1/D: Recitative: Ba wo ni... Mama Dominga, my ankle hurts. 00.10.45
6 Scene 2/A: Oh dear, oh dear, I’m old. 00.14.30
7 Scene 2/B: Laudetur... in aeternum... Amen. 00.17.25
8 Scene 2/C: I am so scared. 00.21.05
9 Scene 3/A: Olalla, my angel, look, I’m rotting away. 00.24.50
10 Scene 3/B: Marquis, ...she has a slight fever. 00.30.30
11 Scene 3/C: Marquis, it is the wish of His Grace the Bishop… 00.33.57
12 Scene 4/A: Nunc Sancte nobis... Sit down. Wait here. 00.40.27
13 Scene 4/B: Marquise, I am Martina Laborde. 00.46.13
14 Scene 4/C: "...in a few days" Marquesita, I’m sorry for you. 00.49.00
15 Scene 5: Salvam fac ancillam tuam... What’s that patch over your eye for? 00.53.13
16 Scene 6: God save you, Sierva Maria de Todos Los Angeles… 01.01.09
Part II
17 Scene 7/A: Prologue: In God’s creation there’s a single demon… 01.07.18
18 Scene 7/B: In my dream - I watch the one-eyed moon rise above a dying afternoon. 01.15.53
19 Scene 7/C: Day after day - my wizard is here. 01.21.11
20 Scene 7/D: Father Cayetano Delaura... I order you to leave now… 01.29.24
21 Scene 8/A: Deus, audi orationem meam… 01.32.16
22 Scene 8/B: Exorcizo te, immundissime spiritus. 01.34.35
23 Scene 8/C: No! No!... My child - it won’t be long now. 01.37.15
24 Scene 8/D: Adjuro te, serpens antique… 01.41.11
25 Scene 9/A: The cry of the peacock! The herald of Oshun. 01.43.14
26 Scene 9/B: Vuelve y revuelve amor mi pensamiento... She’s gone, my baby is gone. 01.45.37